Professional ethics and features of administrative ethics Most civil servant activities involve communicating with the public and having constant daily personal contact with many people. Besides legal and other regulatory systems, morality is another important instrument of normative individual activity and behaviour regulation in any sphere of life. Labour morality usually includes professional ethics that determine moral principles and individual behaviour standards for any sphere of labour activity. Professional ethics are a set of norms that determines an individual position towards professional duties, professional relations with other employees and, finally, towards society as a whole. Professional ethics reflects the specifics of morality, personal interrelationships and behaviour coming from professional activities. It is common practice to distinguish professional ethics for activities related to direct communications with people, such as medicine, journalism, legal science, general sciences, etc. Activities dealing with special public duties like military service, police service, sports or public and political activities and others are also characterized by special moral codes. Professional ethics can be considered as a concrete expression of general ethical norms caused not only by the specifics of relations between professional groups and public, but the specifics of personal relations within a professional group. It is the existence of special personal relations within professional groups that results in special moral norms regulating these relations. Professional ethics include: first, behavioural codes defining certain types of moral relations between individuals who consider these codes optimal for the performance of a professional duty; second, the ground for these codes, the social and psychological interpretation of cultural and humanistic purposes of the profession, its epos. Professional ethics studies: the position of a professional group and its members towards society and other groups, and their concerns; the personal moral features of a specialist that provide the highest level of his/her professional duty erformance; specifics of moral relations between specialists and individuals to whom a specialists activities are directed; relationships within professional groups and special professional moral standards expressing these relationships; professional activity as a personal moral feature and professional activity values; specifics, goals and techniques of professional education.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:03:49 +0000
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